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A Lurker's History of Paradox and the Paradox Community * by Stacy Rowley The Mid-1990s Windows Days: the Software September 1993 found PW 4.5 (fixing a good number of PW 1.0 problems and providing customizable style sheets) released along with SQL Link. (Note that PDOS 4.5 was released at the same time; actually the jump in PW version number was made just to synchronize the numbers!) SQL Link provided the software necessary to attach to a SQL server. Now, in the Client/Server environment, a Paradox application could provide the front end to a backend database server such as Borland's Interbase, Oracle, or Microsoft SQL Server. (But under C/S, the Paradox application must be tailored to handle a different role, one in which it transmits or receives just the data needed for that operation.) PW 5.0 was released a year later. It had 139 new or modified methods, including ones for printer control, clipboard control, directory control, form synchronization, and resource information. It also came with a rich set of enhancements to the form designer and a completely revamped ObjectPAL debugger. Maintenance release PW 5.01 came out in February 1995. At this point we had a very usable, quite stable Paradox to use. Back around 1993, office suites had become market entities for Microsoft and Lotus. A series of events then took place that started Paradox down a path:
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